cgroup: add cgroup_subsys_state->parent

With the planned unified hierarchy, css's (cgroup_subsys_state) will
be RCU protected and allowed to be attached and detached dynamically
over the course of a cgroup's lifetime.  This means that css's will
stay accessible after being detached from its cgroup - the matching
pointer in cgroup->subsys[] cleared - for ref draining and RCU grace
period.

cgroup core still wants to guarantee that the parent css is never
destroyed before its children and css_parent() always returns the
parent regardless of the state of the child css as long as it's
accessible.

This patch makes css's hold onto their parents and adds css->parent so
that the parent css is never detroyed before its children and can be
determined without consulting the cgroups.

cgroup->dummy_css is also updated to point to the parent dummy_css;
however, it doesn't need to worry about object lifetime as the parent
cgroup is already pinned by the child.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 12d66fee26f..8a5dc91fbaa 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state {
 	/* reference count - access via css_[try]get() and css_put() */
 	struct percpu_ref refcnt;
 
+	/* the parent css */
+	struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent;
+
 	unsigned long flags;
 	/* ID for this css, if possible */
 	struct css_id __rcu *id;
@@ -666,15 +669,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
 static inline
 struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_parent(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 {
-	struct cgroup *parent_cgrp = css->cgroup->parent;
-
-	if (!parent_cgrp)
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (css->ss)
-		return parent_cgrp->subsys[css->ss->subsys_id];
-	else
-		return &parent_cgrp->dummy_css;
+	return css->parent;
 }
 
 /**